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Penalties in Tecmo Super Bowl
Deep within your Tecmo Super Bowl cartridge a jittery, undersized guard is twitching for a head start. Across from him, a mammoth Nose Tackle is trying to time the snap count. Only a few missing bytes...
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Running Basics In Tecmo Super Bowl
In this article, you will learn more about the basics of running in Tecmo Super Bowl. We would be using a R and S playbook to show our examples just like in the previous articles. You will learn more...
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Team Profile — Packers
It’s easy for younger Packers fans to disassociate from just how brutal the 70s and 80s were for the NFL’s only publicly owned franchise. During these decades of darkness, visions of Ice Bowl glory...
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Team Profile — Cleveland Browns
Other than the 49ers, there may not have been a more exciting NFL franchise to follow in the 1980s than the Cleveland Browns. After establishing a gritty identity where battles were lost or won in the...
View ArticleRetro Packs #1 – EP01: PILOT – 1990 Score Series I
We are starting up a new video series called Retro Packs where we open up retro football card packs from the Tecmo Bowl-era. Below is the pilot episode containing our first opening, camera test and...
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Stat Correction – John Elway
If this column ends in mid-sentence, know that I’ve been abducted by Browns Backers and I’m being skunk-beer waterboarded in a dungeon under the Muni Lot. Risking Browns-on-Browns violence, the...
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Tecmo Super Bowl says Panthers will beat Broncos in Super Bowl 50 — From Polygon
Source: http://www.polygon.com/2016/1/25/10826456/tecmo-super-bowl-says-panthers-will-beat-broncos-in-super-bowl-50 Mistakes prove very costly in a defensive struggle By Owen S. Good on Jan 25, 2016...
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Gameplay Challenge: Defense + Special Teams Season
Gameplay Challenge: Defense + Special Teams Season This takes guts, glory and lots of patience. Can you do it? Even our favorite things in life can benefit from an image redux, and the same is true...
View ArticleTalking with Keiji Yamagishi, Tecmo’s Music Man – pt.1
Keiji Yamagishi lives in your head. If I say “Ready! Down! Hut! Hut! Hut!,[1]” his music drives through your brain. Tecmo fans hear Keiji’s 1st and 10 fanfare whenever NFL official Ed Hoculi signals...
View ArticleTalking with Keiji Yamagishi, Tecmo’s Music Man – pt.2
Today, we continue our chat with Keiji Yamagishi, the musical mastermind who scored some of Tecmo’s greatest 1990’s successes. Last time out, Keiji talked of his early influences and TSB’s interesting...
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Tecmo Madison XII – Pool Play Breakdown by Region
Dave “Bruddog” Brude breaks down the 268-man Tecmo Madison XII field by region. He predicts the potential group winners through a power ranking formula in addition to his in-depth knowledge of the...
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A Legendary Tale – Tecmo Super Bowl and Me
Nintendo for Christmas? TSB?! I remember the first time I fell in love. It was actually the day after first feeling painful heartbreak. All I wanted for Christmas that year was a Nintendo. Coop had...
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Bad Player, Good Team: The New York Giants
Tecmo’s New York Giants are stacked. As in Sir Mix-a-Lot, Baby Got Back stacked. Offense or defense, backfield or secondary, the Giants lack weakness. The Houston Oilers may have Warren Moon and a...
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Tecmo Legend: Rod Woodson
The late 1980s and early ’90s saw a Pittsburgh Steelers franchise struggling through mediocrity. The Steelers fell to also-rans after QB Terry Bradshaw retired. The memory of back-to-back Super Bowl...
View ArticleBo Knows Family Guy – Tecmo Super Bowl on Family Guy
Tecmo Super Bowl & Bo Jackson on Family Guy – Watch Below! Last night, Tecmo Super Bowl and the immortal video game Bo Jackson were referenced on Family Guy, Season 14 Episode 19 Run, Chris,...
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Tecmo vs. Family Guy’s DMCA Bots
Tecmo Super Bowl keeps proving its relevance. An innocent Bo Jackson cameo on Family Guy has thrust TSB into the contentious debate over intellectual property in the digital age.The Family Guy episode,...
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Dave Brude Discovers TSB’s False Start
Dave Brude has unearthed a long-rumored Tecmo Super Bowl secret: the false start.Twenty years ago, Dave “Bruddog” Brude dominated friends in Tecmo Super Bowl, keeping detailed game notes. Today, Dave...
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TSB’s Secret “Juice”
The easiest way to win Tecmo Super Bowl is to lose. The reason? “Juice.” Juice is Tecmo slang for the stat boost COM players receive after each MAN win. A good video game increases in challenge as the...
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NFL Blitz and Tecmo
The last “Tecmo” football game wasn’t even made by Tecmo. It was made by Midway, and it was called NFL Blitz.By the end of the 1990’s, the NFL had grown into a licensing machine, jealously protective...
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Hacking Tecmo Players and Stats
Tecmo Super Bowl is a simple game to hack. Granted, hacking in 2-point conversions or turning TSB into a 7-on-7 streetfight takes some serious know-how, but the basics–changing player names and...
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